Totally Idiotic Question-Famous Piece of Classical Music (1 Viewer)

[Ike]

All right, I admit that my classical music knowledge is not what it should be, so I'd like to know what the name of a very famous piece of classical music is-it's used in movie trailers a lot, and has recently been so overused it has begun to get parodied (South Park used it in it's trailer, I believe). The most famous use of it would be during the satanic/blood drinking/love scene in The Doors. Is this a piece called Requiem?

 

[Greg_Y]

Haven't seen the Doors. Could it possibly be O Fortuna from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff? That's used alot.
You can listen to it here
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/cl...0000I7W9001001
Track #1

 

[Ike]

Yep, that's it!

Thanks a lot.

 

[Ralph Summa]

OK, on that same line...What's the piece in the DeBeers diamond commercials?

 

[Joel Mack]

"Palladio" by the London Philharmonic/Karl Jenkins.

If you do a search for an album titled "Diamond Music" at CDNow, you can hear a little clip of it. Track 1.